Course 4: More food from Water?    CANCELLED

University of Bergen (UiB), Department of Biology

Course Leaders:

• Petter Larsson, Professor, Department of Biology, UiB
• Rune Rosland, Associate professor, Department of Biology, UiB
• Jeppe Kolding, Associate professor, Fisheries Biology/Fisheries Management
• Ragnar Nortvedt, Professor in Seafood Quality and Food Processing

Invited course leader:

• Christophe Béné , Senior advisor, Small-scale Fisheries and Development, World Fish Center,Cairo Offices,Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Short Course description:

This course looks at the possibilities and constraints for food production in aquatic ecosystems. The aim is to provide a critical perspective on how aquatic food production of high nutritional quality can be enhanced through harvest practices, ecosystem manipulations and aquaculture development, and potential environmental costs linked with such actions. This course presents a selection of cases within these topics. The course will look at ecosystem processes that are susceptible for manipulative actions, which methods are available, and how these affect the production of the system. Questions concerning possibilities for improvement, challenges and limits will be addressed. The course will also address questions concerning environmental effects and the potential costs of actions aimed at increasing aquatic food production. The final part of the course will look closer into the beneficial utilization of aquatic products and by-products for human nutrition.

For full course description and syllabus: Click here (PDF)